it is for these reasons that i strongly recommend the task force introduced by supervisor malia cohen, district 10, where the majority of the shootings. >> sir, you cannot comment on the task force at this time, i'm sorry. >> that this task force be filled with members of the community. >> sir, i'm sorry, you can't comment on the task force. i'm sorry. >> okay. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, madame president and board of supervisors. my name is pastor from the western edition -- i'm just here's a member of the san francisco black and brown organization alliance. we're aligning our communities. we have young men, young women that are dieing in the streets from bayview-hunters point to the western edition, tenderloin , we have got the western edition. it's touched everybody. lake view omi is completely wiped out of black people, period. everybody is ended up in the tenderloin and we're getting pushed out of tenderloin. we sit right next door to the marina district. right over the hill. so we just thank you for hearing us. as an organization, we're pulling together, it's not

afternoon the meeting will come to order this is the regular meeting of the land use commission i'm malia cohen chair of the committee to my right is the vice chair 63 and jane kim this is our clerk ms. andrea ashbury. >> thank you john both john's for helping us with sfgovtv. >> madam clerk, any announcements? completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the march third 2015 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated thank you very much could you please call item one. >> an ordinance for the environmental code. >> thank you. i'm the author of item one as a reminder last year, i introduced to champion pieces of legislation this strengths the cities construction and development impact on residents air quality in the city the first thing was unanimously passed when i the board required combrasz combalsz ventilation inside the hot spot zone this requires an emissions minimumtion plan and monitoring program for all public projects in the hot spot condone requiring the equipment to minimize the emotion some stud

we also will need to have a motion to excuse supervisor malia cohen, who will be replaced by supervisored today. >> so move ?ood ?oo motion

a hearty chinese new year the first day of chinese new year we have a lot to celebrate we have malia cohenory continues to be so inspiring everyday she's not in my area but in my ear and reremind each other of the sprernz to making promises to helping others get out of poverty not just in public utilities but housing i know the secretary is going to say some things i'll truly inspired by the support as determined as o citizen says i'm about this topic i'm lucky to have people surrounding me with the same interests and passion to help people get out the poverty part of that it is to have an answer is people call the deplanning housing someone's fault i told you we've isolated the residents not to be the residents but never again that reference is going to happy that we are providing proud to see the residents of our public utilities are resident of san francisco what do you mean that means (clapping.) a heck of a lot and those conversations have now proud action that produce a lot of people that stepped up you can our regional office levied by ophelia she's a supporter of our vision for thi

>> >>supervisor malia cohen: this is unanimously passed by the board of supervisors last year around a proposal designated around to henry adams, an historic building. in that particular case the project sponsor was going to conduct a building of long-term permits terments. during the review of the proposal i asked the planning department to look at similar buildings in the area that might qualify for a similar conversion. the planning department determined there are approximately 14 other buildings in the pdr 1b and 1g zoning districts that could be eligible for a landmark designation and office conversion. prior to the control passed last year, these buildings were allowed to include office space if left unchanged this provision could cause a loss of nearly 1 million square feet of pdr space. interim controls we passed last year and before you today tlimentd -- limited the amount of office by establishing new floor controls. these floor controls will only allow a portion of the building to be used for office and will previous pdr space. this ordinance requires a conditional use per

we know the importance of bringing fresh healthy food to our neighborhoods thank you, supervisor malia cohen and supervisor eric mar who's been working on those issues for years and look i've got vegetation and fruit right next to me well, my fell san franciscans a year ago we gathered not twho too far from here at hoichd to celebrate the construction of new homes for our families in the city i set forth an ambition vision that had a phone call on jeebz responsibility that led us out of the great depression this double digit inflation and end also red ink we've set forth a course facing our city directly and from every angle on income and equality and education and transportation and most importantly housing pursue in 2014 working with you members of the board of supervisors and the entire community of our city i'm very proud of the progress we've made on that path together so to you and the voters of san francisco i say thank you let me start with minimum wage some of you know i grew up washing dishes in my fathsdz restaurant i know how families struggle in november we passed proposition j

a nationally and globally recognized leader in public health and i also want to add supervisor malia cohen is also a sponsor of this legislation. i see hands going up. i'm happy to add to supervisor farrell tangd wiener you are invited. this is an amazing gift and i look forward to not only passing this but moving forward to general hospital and making it what it needs to be for our great city. so the second item that i have quickly is an invitation to you all to the city. supervisor cohen and i are hosting an event on monday february 23rd, in celebration of black history month. black history month is a time that we reflect on our past. a time that we show appreciation to our culture and to a lot of the contributions of african americans to the united states as well as work to support our communities and work to bring people together for an incredible cultural experience of togetherness. so supervisor cohen and i will be hosting this event on february 23rd in city hall in the rotunda and the public is invited to attend. we will have african american restaurants in san francisco, african am

order like to welcome you all to the san francisco transportation authority finance committee i'm malia cohen to my right is julia chris son and supervisor farrell and image okay may not i thought i heard another one coming mr. steve is the clerk i'm to thank jessie larson and charles i'd like to now let's see i'd like to call roll mr. clerk and roll call. >> supervisor chinning son and supervisor president tang and supervisor wiener we have quorum. >> thank you very much now i'd like to misconduct i instruct the clerk to call the consent calendar. >> consent calendar items it through 4 considered by the board to be routine and will be enacted by one resolution in the form or forms listed below. the staff is presented if they want to and will be considered separately. >> thank you very much seeing no conversation from colleagues let's opening it up for public comment at this point seeing none, public comment is closed let's take a roll call vote on those mr. star items. >> on see consent calendar supervisor christen. >> i vote to approve. >> supervisor cowen supervisor farrell supervisor pres

good afternoon, everyone thank you secretary castro we want to thank the supervisors who work and malia cohennd london breed our housing folks are making it easier for public housing and thank barbara smith she's the redevelopment housing queen we call her, in fact, we have of one of this i live in and represent we're excited and welcome this program the secretary we have something to give you we have fighting to keep your jurisdiction wide of councils in place we're important to advocate for the people who can't be here all the time we're conducting leadership trainings which we 14reb9d black history and the new year we're diverse and reaching out to the people in public housing just remember i'm here to advocate to keep our jurisdiction wide and some suggestions for you all you can share with president obama the 3 things anything that anyone needs ask us and we'll be there thank you (clapping.) >> the strength of the jurisdiction wide organizations is that they're elected by the tenants and the buildings or developments to represent so we're internal to it we ourselves are tenants we live i

think or want to thank director ram and his staff the mayor's office our local supervisors office malia cohen and the on that supported that so with this kate. >> good afternoon, commissioners well, for many you, you who have been on the journey with us it's been two years to work together with the support of mayor's office of economic workforce development the board of supervisors and many of you to reach this power point we're going to venting to build the first new manufacturing complexities the city has seen in almost two years the time couldn't be soon enough the manufacturers that was shared has been growing over the last 3 years since we've been engaged with the sf sector it's grown more than 10 and 12 and 13 percent new jobs were added for working-class san franciscans for people that have less educational background and yoipth youth this will be home to 4 hundred and 50 jobs for the folks in the community we've designed the project incomprehensive bringing in the manufacturers that are currently in san francisco to define how those buildings can accommodate a debar ment or food manuf

. >> supervisor cohen in >>supervisor malia cohen: thank you everyone. i just want to briefly speak a few things into the record. first and foremost earthquake round request a follow up hearing. you may recall that there were families and children who were impacted by a shooting and hearst playground back in june 2014. as many of rib the neighborhood camp counselor was fatally shot in the playground basketball courts. as you can imagine the incident impacted people in the valley neighborhood including many youth that are in our unified school district. following the incident, city departments including but not limited to department of public health, district attorney's office, the victims unit and the san francisco unified school district to those who were impacted receive the appropriate support services they e need including counseling and mental health support and many had to start a new school year after it happened. it is been about 6 months since this incident and i would like to receive an update about this incident including the services they hav

we also will need to have a motion to excuse supervisor malia cohen, who will be replaced by supervisor breed today. >> so move ?ood ?oo motion from supervisor tang and seconded by supervisor breed. we will take that without objection. we have many items up today. >> please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic device cans. completed speaker cards and any documents to be completed as part of the file should be handed to the clerk. >> very good let's go on to our first item. >> item no. 1 is a motion approving or rejecting the mayor's appointment of ike kwan to the public utilities commission public utilities commission. >> very very good. this is probably the biggest moment in today's meeting, it's a commission seat that's been a long time coming and we have mr. ike kwan who is here to present his interest in the seat and would like to welcome you, mr. kwan, if you can share with us an opening statement we'll go on to questions from there. >> well good morning, chair avalos, president breed, supervisor tang, and thank you for the opportunity to talk to you today about why

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. >> san francisco supervisor malia cohen joins us and to talk about her desire to create a task forcehe task force will accomplish. >> sure. let's put this in context. when we're talking about violence and the epidemic, its something happening nationally, not just here in san francisco. we're feeling the pressure locally because we live here, and that's where our commitment and our hearts are, but there are approximately 350,000 acts of violence nationally that guns are involved in. and is here in san francisco, we're just paying an acute attention to what's happening on our streets, because it affects us and our quality of life. >> so what will this task force do and who will be on it? >> sure. so the task force is comprised of about 13 spaces, and there were professional seats, and there are seats available, 7 of them, for community members sworn there are seats for are the department of public health, so that there is a mental health component, an educator, someone from adult probation, the police department, the sheriff's department, our law enforcement community, as well as what